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Making better buildings : a comparative guide to sustainable construction for homeowners and contractors  Cover Image Book Book

Making better buildings : a comparative guide to sustainable construction for homeowners and contractors / Chris Magwood. --

Magwood, Chris. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0865717060 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780865717060 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xxii, 441 p. : ill.
  • Publisher: Gabriola, BC : New Society Publishers, c2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 39.95
Subject: Sustainable construction.
Sustainable buildings > Design and construction.
Building > Environmental aspects.
Materials > Environmental aspects.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Jen Feigin is a designer, carpenter and natural builder specializing in sustainable design with a strong focus on straw bale wall systems and many other natural building techniques. Together with Chris Magwood, Jen is a founder and director of the Endeavour Centre for Innovative Building and Living based in Peterborough, Ont. She owns and operates Green Hammer Construction, and has been an instructor and project manager with the Sustainable Building Design and Construction program at Fleming College since 2007. Jen teaches workshops on natural building techniques across Ontario.

Chris Magwood has designed and built some of the most innovative, sustainable buildings in North America, including the first off-grid, straw bale home in Ontario which became a fifteen-year research project into the implementation of sustainable building materials and technologies. He created the Sustainable Building Design and Construction program at Fleming College in 2005, and together with Jen Feigin founded and directs the Endeavour Centre for Innovative Building and Living. Chris is the author of 3 previous books on sustainable building including Straw Bale Details and More Straw Bale Building .


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